THE HONEST truth about the Luna Ultra after using it for 30 days..

Terry Warfield reviews the Insta360 Luna Ultra after 30 days, comparing it to DJI Pocket 4P, highlighting pros, cons, and unique features for solo creators.

Key Takeaways

Insta360 Luna Ultra is a strong first-generation product with thoughtful design for solo creators.
While the Pocket 4P has better image quality, the Luna Ultra offers superior usability and accessory integration.
The Luna Ultra’s build quality and included hard case set it apart from competitors.
Some features like USB streaming and vertical video resolution need improvement.
Firmware updates could significantly enhance the Luna Ultra's performance and features.

What the video covers

Terry Warfield has used the Insta360 Luna Ultra for about a month and shares an honest review.
The Luna Ultra is praised as a well-thought-out first-generation product with excellent build quality and accessories.
The reviewer compares the Luna Ultra to DJI Pocket 4P, Pocket 4, and Pocket 3, noting the Luna Ultra's unique quality-of-life features.
The Luna Ultra offers a hard plastic case with slots for ND filters, wide-angle filters, and mic pros, unlike DJI's soft pouches.
Image quality of the Luna Ultra is very good, though the Pocket 4P has superior image quality, dynamic range, and color accuracy.
The Luna Ultra supports 8K video at 30fps and 4K at 120fps, with built-in filters and customizable buttons on a rotatable screen.
Some drawbacks include limited vertical video resolution (3K), lack of USB streaming, and a cumbersome menu navigation system.
The Luna Ultra excels in macro-like close-up shots and has a high-quality microphone system designed for solo creators.
Terry emphasizes that the Luna Ultra is close to being amazing and expects major firmware updates to improve it further.
The video is unsponsored, and Terry shares his genuine opinion without obligation to Insta360 or DJI.

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Is the Insta360 Luna Ultra better than the DJI Pocket 4P?

The Luna Ultra offers better usability, build quality, and accessories, but the DJI Pocket 4P has superior image quality, dynamic range, and colors.

Does the Luna Ultra support USB streaming?

Currently, the Luna Ultra does not support USB streaming, but this feature may be added in future firmware updates.

What are the main drawbacks of the Luna Ultra?

Drawbacks include limited vertical video resolution (3K), lack of USB streaming, and a somewhat cumbersome menu navigation system.

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You know, I've been using this Insta360 Luna for a couple of weeks now, and I'm just going to say this. This is the product of what happens when a company gets hungry. When they get sick of being an underdog and watching everybody else win, hint DJI. This is what happens when a company is sick of taking all of the crap. Right? I'm going to be honest. I have right now the Insta360 Luna right here. I got the DJI Pocket 4P, which

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win, hint DJI. This is what happens when a company is sick of taking all of the crap. Right? I'm going to be honest. I have right now the Insta3 Luna right here. I got the DJI Pocket 4P, which

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unfortunately at the time I'm making this video, although the entire world knows about this camera, us US creators are still under embargo, so there's some things I obviously can't talk about in this video. And I also have the Pocket

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3, which is still Old Faithful, and also the Pocket 4. And you know which one of these cameras I pick up first. It's the Insta 360 Luna. So, in this video, I'm going to talk about the pros and cons,

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3, which is still Old Faithful, and also the Pocket 4. And you know which one of these cameras I pick up first. It's the Insta360 Luna. So, in this video, I'm going to talk about the pros and cons,

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It's Ty Terry Warfield back for another video. Hope you're having a fantastic day so far. Remember to be thankful for your freaking life today because you did not have to have that. Seriously, just take a step back and realize how blessed

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at least for me, after using this for a couple of weeks, and why I think honestly this might be the one. What's up, y'all?

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did not script this video, so I'm probably going to stutter, mess some things up, all of that stuff. This video is unsponsored by Insta 360 or DJI or anybody else for that matter. Insta3 did send me over the Luna Ultra. They didn't

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It's Ty Terry Warfield back for another video. Hope you're having a fantastic day so far. Remember to be thankful for your freaking life today because you did not have to have that. Seriously, just take a step back and realize how blessed

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and focus on the Luna Ultra. I've been using this for, like I said, about a month now. And I'm just going to say this, for this to be a first generation product, this camera is so damn good.

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you are right now. Just look on the news to see all this crazy stuff going on in the world and you here with me and I thank you for that. A few housekeeping items before we get out the way. Number one, I

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using it so much and we might as well get into all the things that I love right now. And I'm going to go ahead and bring out this case for the Luna Ultra.

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did not script this video, so I'm probably going to stutter, mess some things up, all of that stuff. This video is unsponsored by Insta360 or DJI or anybody else for that matter. Insta360 did send me over the Luna Ultra. They didn't

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got a hard plastic case right here that has slots for my ND filters, wide angle filters, all that other stuff. It's got a slot on it for the mic pros. So, the reason I'm saying this is because none

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ask me to make any content. They don't even get to preview any of the content I make, and they did send me all the accessories, but again, I'm under no obligation to make any content. Now that I've said those things, let's go ahead

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is. And it's not just the case. For example, like the battery grip right here has little feet built into the bottom of it. So like if you want to sit this on the table, although I wouldn't trust this like in dangerous situations

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and focus on the Luna Ultra. I've been using this for, like I said, about a month now. And I'm just going to say this, for this to be a first-generation product, this camera is so damn good.

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windcreen comes off the back if you don't want it on there. the fact that the buttons are actually on the screen so that when you rotate the screen, you still have access to your custom buttons, which we are going to talk

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Don't get it twisted. There's some things that suck about this camera, okay? We're going to talk about those when I talk about the things that I don't love. But I'm just going to say this, the Luna Ultra, I have enjoyed

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highquality microphone. It's just the whole system is so well thought out for solo creators. these quality of life things that the Luna Altra does that the Pocket 3, Pocket 4, Pocket 4P doesn't do. These are the reasons that make me

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using it so much and we might as well get into all the things that I love right now. And I'm going to go ahead and bring out this case for the Luna Ultra.

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Terry, if you had to choose one of them, would you choose the Luna Ultra or the Pocket 4P? And I'm not going to go super in-depth on this, but I'm going to say what I feel is not what everybody else

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Okay, this is the first thing I love about it right here. All right. The reason I brought this case is to show you just how well this entire system is thought out. Okay, first of all, it starts with the case. If I open this, I

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However, this is what I think it boils down to. The Pocket 4P has better image quality, better dynamic range, better colors. So, if you're really heavy into like film making and color grading and all of that stuff, matching other

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got a hard plastic case right here that has slots for my ND filters, wide-angle filters, all that other stuff. It's got a slot on it for the mic pros. So, the reason I'm saying this is because none

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what it boils down to. And the Luna Ultra's image is also really, really good. We might as well talk about that now. Although, I say, and I've said this like 10 times on the internet already, that the Pocket 4P's image is superior

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of the pockets come with a hard plastic case. They all come with like soft pouches. This is just one of the first things that blew me away was the quality of this case and how well thought out it

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both cameras. It does have a lot of dynamic range, just not as much as the 4P, but still enough for probably 98% of people that are going to buy it. I've used it a ton for YouTube videos, vlogs.

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is. And it's not just the case. For example, like the battery grip right here has little feet built into the bottom of it. So like if you want to sit this on the table, although I wouldn't trust this like in dangerous situations

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huge plus. But I will say for some reason the 8K looks better than the 4K.

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or heavy winds or anything like that, it's still a clutch solution to be able to sit this on the table without needing to carry around a huge tripod or a separate tripod like you have to do with DJI cameras. Another example is how the

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and stuff like that. Just something small I noticed. Now, in normal color mode, you can adjust the sharpness. You can adjust contrast and saturation. But the other thing I love is the built-in filters or custom looks, whatever you

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windscreen comes off the back if you don't want it on there. The fact that the buttons are actually on the screen so that when you rotate the screen, you still have access to your custom buttons, which we are going to talk

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color profiles with the filters, I think they're a little too punchy and contrasty. But if you use EyLog, but you use the filters on top of that, it gives you a much more natural film look, which I really, really prefer. To wrap up,

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about those in a little bit. When you flip the camera sideways, the whole UI actually rotates. And then to top it all off, as you've probably seen by now, the freaking screen comes off to control the entire Luna. And it's got a built-in

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another thing about the Luna Ultra is just like the Pocket 4P, there's a 1x camera and the 3x. Now, when you're filming at 8K, you can only go up to the 6x zoom, but when you flip over to 4K,

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high-quality microphone. It's just the whole system is so well thought out for solo creators. These quality of life things that the Luna Ultra does that the Pocket 3, Pocket 4, Pocket 4P doesn't do. These are the reasons that make me

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but you do get to retain a ton of quality even with the 6x. The other thing I love about the Luna is you could get real close to subjects almost macro like and some of these shots under the

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pick it up first over the Pocket 3, Pocket 4, Pocket 4P. Now, I do want to answer this because there's going to be a lot of y'all in the comments section that are going to want to know like,

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Luna. There are some people who've complained about the range on the screen. I don't know if there's a difference in units because I can easily walk away from the Luna 5T, 10 feet, sometimes more without any interference or signal issues or anything like that.

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Terry, if you had to choose one of them, would you choose the Luna Ultra or the Pocket 4P? And I'm not going to go super in-depth on this, but I'm going to say what I feel is not what everybody else

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it in my day in the life video where I walked into a restaurant and I was able to make sure that I was framed right, exposed properly, all of that stuff because I was able to take the screen

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feels, and there's no right or wrong way 'cause both of these devices are fantastic.

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your microphones or simply just don't want to use them. But the fact that I could just use this and talk directly into this to get high quality audio, it is so fire and it's honestly gamechanging. As a solo content creator,

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However, this is what I think it boils down to. The Pocket 4P has better image quality, better dynamic range, better colors. So, if you're really heavy into like filmmaking and color grading and all of that stuff, matching other

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I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on tracking because honestly all of these cameras, DJI's cameras, Insta 360's cameras, these little gimbal cameras, they're all fantastic when it comes to tracking. We've used it for tracking rollers on the freeway, on the

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cameras, then the Pocket 4P is for sure the way to go. And they have a lot of similarities. However, the Luna Ultra is really geared towards like solo content creation and making that easy as I just kind of went over. So, I think that's

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the subject to be framed in, and it'll automatically move. I don't know if you can see this or not, but it'll automatically move the gimbal and maintain that position in the frame. I'm also very very impressed with the

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what it boils down to. And the Luna Ultra's image is also really, really good. We might as well talk about that now. Although, I say, and I've said this like 10 times on the internet already, that the Pocket 4P's image is superior

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when we were doing rollers, it was able to go off of basically like 70% charge for the entire time that we were shooting. And you know how difficult rollers are at 70 mph. The gimbal has to fight the wind. It's got to do tracking.

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to the Luna Ultra because it is. It is a night and day difference when it comes to dynamic range and stuff like that. It doesn't mean that the Luna Ultra is anything near bad. The Luna Ultra produces amazing quality video out of

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left. I would I would just say that the battery life so far has been very very impressive. And it also charges mad fast. Like if it dies, and again, you get the little battery grip that you can use, too. But if it dies, you can get it

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both cameras. It does have a lot of dynamic range, just not as much as the 4P, but still enough for probably 98% of people that are going to buy it. I've used it a ton for YouTube videos, vlogs.

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does have more buttons on there. That's the Pocket 3. Here's the Pocket 4. But when you close the screen, you lose access to these two buttons right here.

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We actually filmed some rollers of my Hummer, and the image quality out of it looks great. Also, it shoots in 8K up to 30 frames per second, 4K 120 frames per second using both cameras. And you can use EyLOG on both of them, which is a

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Before I move on to the con section again, I just want to give the Luna its freaking flowers. This camera has been such a freaking joy to use. Like seriously, I freaking love this thing so far, which is very, very surprising

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huge plus. But I will say for some reason the 8K looks better than the 4K.

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wrong with the Luna Ultra at the time of making this video. And the reason why, again, I keep saying the time of making this video, because some of the things I'm going to complain about, I'm pretty sure Insta 360 is going to patch them

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I'm not just talking about detail and resolution. Clearly, 8K is a lot more resolution than 4K. But for some reason, this camera processes 8K and 4K differently when it comes to like skin tones and colors and highlight roll-off

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biggest issue, which is the lack of any exposure tools whatsoever. And this compounds, okay, you're going to you're going to hear all about it. But at the time of making this video, there's no EV meter. When you want to film in manual,

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and stuff like that. Just something small I noticed. Now, in normal color mode, you can adjust the sharpness. You can adjust contrast and saturation. But the other thing I love is the built-in filters or custom looks, whatever you

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making this video to see if we're underexposed or overexposed. There's no log view assist. So that means when I want to use EyeLog and I'm in manual, I'm basically guessing, unless I want to open up the Insta 360 app to get access

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want to call them. These are the filters that Insta360 co-developed with Leica. And I'm going to say I've used the filters in the Pocket 4P and also the Pocket 4. And I much prefer the filters out of the Luna. If you use the normal

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and find out that it's way underexposed, which means then I got to lift the shadows way up, right? Which introduces so much noise and stuff like that. Now, one thing the Luna does have going for it is it does have a ton of range with

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color profiles with the filters, I think they're a little too punchy and contrasty. But if you use EyLOG, but you use the filters on top of that, it gives you a much more natural film look, which I really, really prefer. To wrap up,

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And I've been able to recover some clips out of this camera, way more than I thought I would be able to. But still, we can't get a EV meter, like just something on the screen showing me like, am I over or underexposed? and a log

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image quality, it looks more than good enough for 98% of people. It's only the 2% of YouTube d-baggers like me who are going to want more out of the Luna Ultra, and we're going to talk about that in the comment section. Now,

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going to say, Terry, just flip it over to auto or just, you know, control the shutter speed and let the camera do the ISO by itself. Well, the problem with this is auto ISO presents a issue with noise reduction. So, a lot of us have

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another thing about the Luna Ultra is just like the Pocket 4P, there's a 1x camera and the 3x. Now, when you're filming at 8K, you can only go up to the 6x zoom, but when you flip over to 4K,

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there, the moment that the camera can't go higher than that. So, I'm just going to give you an example. Let's just say that you put auto ISO's max of 400, right? And you're at a dark area. And for this to achieve proper exposure, 400

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you can go all the way from 1x to 12x and it's continuous. I think the sweet spot is the 6x because you get the three times optical zoom, but then you get Insta360's what they call lossless zoom. Although it's not truly lossless,

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But in doing that, because it's digital gain, it also puts a whole lot of noise reduction and all that stuff, thus turning this sharp image into a almost plastic looking image. And it doesn't happen all the time. It only happens

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but you do get to retain a ton of quality even with the 6x. The other thing I love about the Luna is you could get real close to subjects almost macro-like and some of these shots under the

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Unless you just don't want to use auto ISO or unless you keep the max of auto ISO high enough to where it doesn't produce digital gain. The problem with that is when it's able to jump all the way up to ISO 6400, then you have a

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right circumstances. Again, you're going to be hard-pressed to be able to tell the difference between this and a

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Like every single time there's a minute change. It's getting darker, it's getting brighter. It's getting darker, it's getting brighter. I wish that Insta 360 could, you know, change the curve on how the auto exposure is applied cuz right now it's way too aggressive and

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it's apparent when it happens. The next thing that really makes this a pain to use is you can't change any settings when you're recording, which is so annoying. So, if I'm in the middle of recording a clip and I need to adjust

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the exposure, guess what I got to do? I got to stop recording. Then I got to go into the menu. Then I got to change whatever about the exposure I need to change. I got to change that. But but it

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gets even more annoying because I can't just after I make my change, like hit the record button and go back to recording, right? No, I have to make the change and then back all the way out the entire menu back. I got to back all the

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way out to be able to record again. And by the time I have did that, I'd have missed a freaking shot already. I also feel like there's a ton of like redundant wasted space. Like, why do we have a 1x button on the screen when we

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have a zoom switch? Okay, we could easily swap that with like some other like histogram or something on the screen. to where we're not having redundancy when it comes to these buttons. I also mentioned these buttons below the screen, which you can

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customize these, right? If we go in here, we go to custom buttons. Yeah, you can change them, but unfortunately, there's not many options in here. So, I would love if we could customize these more. I'm going to use ISO as an

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example, right? One thing that I frequently have to change because we don't have an aperture with this camera is the ISO. And I hate having to dig into the menu every single time I need to change ISO. Especially like I just

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said, if I'm in the middle of recording, well, what if we could just customize these buttons for like ISO to push ISO down or to increase ISO like right here without needing to go into the menu.

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Another opportunity I think Insta 360 really blew with this camera. We can shoot 8K on this camera, which is fantastic. But when you flip it over to vertical, guess what we get? We get 3K.

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Okay? And I'm not saying that 3K is the worst thing on earth, but if we have 8K, I feel like they could have at least gave us more than 3K. Like, make it 4K, make it 5K, something like that. And the

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reason I'm saying that is because although 3K is enough for social media and stuff like that, a lot of us do like the ability to be able to recompose the shot afterwards. And I just feel like with all of this resolution, if you

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couldn't figure out a way to rotate the gimbal to accommodate vertical shooting, that you could have at least gave us more resolution and vertical aside from 3K. Now, obviously, we can rotate the gimbal sideways to get true native

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vertical shooting, which is dope, and I like that the UI rotates because it doesn't do that on DJI cameras, but who wants to hold the camera like this? And the stabilization, the tracking doesn't work as well when you hold the camera

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like this. So, I just wish Insta 360 could have like not taken the the easy lazy route and just gave us more.

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Another huge miss is this does not have USB streaming. You know, I hope it's coming in the firmware update because right now I love being able to use the Pocket 4P, the Pocket 4 for USB streaming, and with the three times lens

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on there, it's fire. I think the last thing that really bugs me about the Luna Ultra, what happens when the screen comes off and I need to like put it in my pocket. Okay, right now there's no way to lock the buttons, lock the

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screen. So, a lot of times I'll frame up and then like try to slip the controller or screen into my pocket because I don't want it to be visible. And then as soon as that happens, then the joystick is

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getting moved around by the fabric in my pants. There's buttons getting pressed and stuff like that. So, there needs to be a way to lock the screen when it's not on the Luna. Also, real quick, just like with the pocket cameras, when you

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enable vertical video, you do lose out on certain things. Also, there is a little LED attachment. I forgot to mention, I mean, I didn't forget to mention it cuz I hate the way Insta 360 designed it. like I have to charge it

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separately and the little adapter to hook it up is just real cheap feeling. The Pocket fours is so much better.

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Neither here nor there. Look, no camera is perfect, right? And I don't expect the Luna Ultra to be perfect, but I truly believe that this camera is like one or two major firmware updates away from being freaking amazing. If Insta

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360 can address the major issues that most of us are having with this camera, this is going to be a very, very good contender with knocking off the Pocket 4P for a lot of people. Again, even with the Insta 360 Luna Ultra's flaws right

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now, unless I just want the best image quality I can get out of a pocket camera, the Luna Ultra's image is more than good enough. and all of the wellthoughtout like creature features, you know, the removable screen, the

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built-in tripod feet, the microphone in the screen, all of those things make using a Ultra like enjoyable. I love the Luna Ultra and once they get this thing dialed in, I think this is going to be for me my go-to permanently when it

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comes to smaller pocket cameras, unless I just absolutely need a stop or two more in dynamic range. This is not to say that there's anything wrong with the Pocket 4P. It is also fantastic and DJI also did a fantastic job with it. But,

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uh, I'm very curious to know what you think. Like are you thinking about the Luna Ultra? Do you have one? Are you thinking about the Pocket 4P or Extras Muse 2 Pro? Like which way are you leaning when it comes to these two very,

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very powerful dual lens pocket cameras? I'm very curious to know what you think about this. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on that notification bell so that you get notified when new videos go

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up. There will be a ton more content on both of these cameras and trust me, any updates and stuff like that, I will be making videos on that, too. So until next time, I'm out of here. Ty Terry

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Warfield. Peace and chicken grease. Much love y'all. Peace.

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